PDF Version of WCU 17:8 – May 8, 2009 In this issue: Vegetables Vegetable Crop Insects Potato Late Blight Advisory Strawberry Disease Control Tomato Bacterial Spot and Speck Downy Mildew and Alternaria of Cole Crops Timber Rot, White Mold, or… Continue Reading
Carl German, Extension Crops Marketing Specialist; clgerman@udel.edu U.S. Corn Crop 33% Planted Thirty-three percent of the nation’s corn crop was planted as of Monday, May 4, ahead of last year’s planting pace of 24% and behind the 50% five-year average.… Continue Reading
Bob Mulrooney, Extension Plant Pathologist; bobmul@udel.edu Little has changed since last week. The map below shows the current status of rust in the US and Mexico. There are no reports of soybean rust on soybean, only on kudzu in FL,… Continue Reading
Bob Mulrooney, Extension Plant Pathologist; bobmul@udel.edu Wheat in most of Delaware is approaching heading or heads have emerged and could be flowering by the weekend depending on temperature. The risk of head scab or Fusarium head blight has increased with… Continue Reading
Joanne Whalen, Extension IPM Specialist; jwhalen@udel.edu Alfalfa If economic levels of alfalfa weevil are present before harvest and you cut instead of spray, be sure to check fields within one week of cutting for damage to the regrowth. If temperatures… Continue Reading
